Yet just as petals rained down from the sky and the atmosphere reached its most frenzied, most deafening peak!
At the front of the venue, in the special VIP section.
"Clack."
Sanji's gleaming black leather shoe came down heavily on the marble floor.
He slowly rose to his feet.
It was not a particularly dramatic movement, but at that moment, Ronan, Zoro, Luffy, and the others seated beside him all narrowed their eyes at once. They could sense a pure, almost tangible resolve erupting violently from within Sanji.
Sanji took one final deep drag of his cigarette, casually spat the burning butt beneath his feet, and viciously crushed it out with the toe of his shoe.
Then.
He suddenly raised his head. His blue eye pierced through the colorful balloons and petals swirling through the air, locking firmly onto the pink figure in a white wedding dress above.
Sanji took a deep breath, his chest swelling like a bellows. He gathered every ounce of strength in his body into his vocal cords and unleashed an ultimate roar capable of tearing open the heavens and piercing the soul:
"REIJU!!!"
"Buzz!!!"
That roar carried a terrifying force capable of silencing all things!
Like an invisible giant axe splitting the heavens, it brutally, violently... cleaved the boiling, raucous revelry of the entire Tea Party in two!
The guests who had been cheering madly moments ago abruptly fell silent, like ducks whose throats had been tightly gripped.
Even the petals drifting down from the sky seemed to freeze for an instant beneath that roar.
Thousands of stunned, horrified, disbelieving gazes swept over with a whoosh, converging on the blond man in a black suit standing in the VIP section like countless searchlights!
"Who is that?!"
"How dare he interrupt the wedding ceremony at a